Vagrant Raiders (VR-)

[Thexare]

I think the base issue of a lot of complaints issued in this thread is that you are asking for *snip* a certain amount of dev time, and a permanent place in Discovery given to you for something that has not yet proven itself a winning concept, or even something a number of players have shown themselves to be interested in truly sticking with.

That is only an issue for people that don't understand how the player faction IDs work. It takes a trivial amount of admin effort to repurpose one of the twenty existing faction ID slots for us (about half or more of which aren't even in use, IIRC). Change the text, give us a stack, set the rephacks and technerfs, that's literally all you have to do.

It's too late in the dev cycle for anything else we want to show up, even if it did have a chance. By the time 4.88 rolls around and the question becomes relevant to the devs again, we will have proven one way or the other if it will stick.

As for the 'more power than other pirate factions' bit... how? We have a larger range to work in than most, but we lack the heavier ships - all of them get at least 4300 cargo ships (including the 12 turret transports), where we're limited to 3600 still, and many of them have Cruisers - we do not. We're not criminals in Bretonia or (soon) Liberty, but in exchange we can't really do anything there, much like the Outcast situation in Bretonia, or the Golden Chrysanthemum situation in Bretonia (man, what is it with Bretonia). Everything has a tradeoff.

It should also be noted that all of our intended opposition is in places that really do need more activity - Rheinland isn't as bad off, but Kusari and Gallia? Yeah, not so hot.